Tobacco dressing machine



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A. MARX.

TOBAGGO DRESSING MAGHINE. No. 369,991. Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

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A. MARX.

TOBAGGO DRESSING MACHINE. No. 369,991. Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW MARX, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BENJ. F. HAXTON, OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO-DRESSING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,991, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed May 18, 1887. Serial No.238,581.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW MARX, of Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Dressing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in tobacco-dressing machines.

The object of the invention is to constructa machine which is especially designed to be employed in dressing different grades of finecut chewing-tobacco and to separate therefrom shorts, gum, and other matter, and to so arrange the operating parts of the device that the effect produced will by mechanical means pass the tobacco through what is termed the "finger-work.

To that end the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a top plan of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is an end view.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a suitable frame-work which supports the operating parts.

B are two rock-shafts journaled in proper hearings or boXes,O,near the upper part of the frame and upon an incline, as shown in Fig. 2. H Each of these rock-shafts has secured to it a rack, D, the bars of which interlace each other. These rock-shafts B are connected by connecting-rods E to the bell crank levers F upon the transverse shaft G, the opposite arms of such bell-crank levers being connected by suitable connecting-rods, H, to the trans verse crank-shaft I, which is arranged to be driven by means of a belt upon the pulley J from any convenient shaft or machinery.

L is a screen which has a reciprocating movement in suitable guides below the rackbars D, such reciprocation being imparted by the connecting-rod M from the central crank of the crank-shaft I.

N are deflectors at the sides of the machine, which direct the shorts and other matter that may fall through the racks D to the screen be (No model.)

low. Underneath this screen is arranged a drawer, 0, into which the shorts that pass through the screen fall and are collected.

The parts being constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described, the tobacco to be operated upon is placed upon top of the racks, which are alternately vibrated in a vertical radial direction, which loosens up the fibers and allows the gum and shorts of the tobacco to fall through such grates upon the screen below, the operator occasionally folding the tobacco being operated upon back upon itself toward the higher end of the machine until it has assumed the light and fluffy appearance desired and the shorts and gum have been separated therefrom, when it is removed and replaced with more tobacco to be dressed. The shorts and gum that fall through the rack-bars fall upon the reciprocating screen, which separates the shorts from the gum and other material, while the gum is ejected from the lower end of the screen upon the floor.

By the employment of a machine of this character I am enabled to make a large saving in point of labor and time, while the effect upon the tobacco is equal to, if not better, than the ordinary finger-Work.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a tobacco-dressing machine, the combination of the inclined rock-shafts B B and the transverse shaft G, interlacing vibrating rack-bars D, connecting-rods E, and bellcrank levers F, said levers F being connected at one end to and adapted to be actuated from a crank-shaft common to both, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the frame A, rockshafts B B and G, interlacing rack-bars D, and reciprocating screen L, arranged beneath the rack-bars and moving in line therewith, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the frame A, rockshafts B B G, rack-bars D, connecting-rods E, bell-crank levers F, connecting-bars H M, crank-shaft I, screen L, and deflectors N, the parts being constructed, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

ANDREW MARX.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, J. PAUL MAYER. 

